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Officially, the plan to virtually nominate Joe Biden as the Democrats’ presidential nominee remains on track. After a couple of weeks of pressure following Biden’s non compos mentis reveal at the presidential debate, Democrats seemed to retreat from demands that Biden withdraw. After the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the mutiny lost steam, mainly because Trump looked unbeatable since Saturday evening.
Now, however, the momentum to unseat Biden and open the Democrat National Convention has gained steam again. Lo and behold, Adam Schiff has now gone full Amityville Horror too, going to the LA Times to tell Biden to get out:
Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank), who is running for U.S. Senate in California, is calling for President Biden to drop out of the presidential race, he said in an exclusive statement Wednesday to The Times.
Schiff, who is heavily favored to win his Senate race, cited “serious concerns” that Biden can beat former President Trump in November. .
“A second Trump presidency will undermine the very foundation of our democracy, and I have serious concerns about whether the President can defeat Donald Trump in November.”
Schiff said the “choice to withdraw from the campaign is President Biden’s alone,” but that he believes it is time for Biden “to pass the torch” and “secure his legacy of leadership” by allowing another Democrat to beat Trump.
File this under Things You Could Have Said Last November. It’s not as if Biden’s cognitive decline suddenly occurred on June 27, 2024. As early as April 2022, the White House had the Easter Bunny order Biden away from reporters and attendees at the annual Easter Egg Hunt. Nominating an unelectable candidate isn’t a good reason to throw out the democratic results of the party’s own primaries, which they rigged to protect Biden from precisely the kind of test of electability that Democrats claim they need now.
The only good reason for this demand would be a lack of competence for the job. And if he’s not up to the job, why isn’t Schiff demanding that Biden resign immediately?
The official plan is still on to finalize Biden’s nomination, but . even the official plan has hit a road bump today, Politico reports:
In a letter signed by the Democratic National Convention Rules Committee co-chairs Leah Daughtry and Tim Walz, the Minnesota governor, the committee says it will “propose a framework for how best to proceed” at a meeting on Friday, but members will not be adopting any rules until next week.
